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In this study, a multi-task AutoEncoder (AE) is proposed to automate anomaly detection of VMAT plans for lung cancer patients.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The feature maps are first extracted from a VMAT plan. Then, a multi-task AE is trained based on the input of a feature map, and its output is the two targets (beam aperture and prescribed dose). Based on the distribution of reconstruction errors on the training set, a detection threshold value is obtained. For a testing sample, its reconstruction error is calculated using the AE model and compared with the threshold value to determine its classes (anomaly or regular). The proposed multi-task AE model is compared to the other existing AE models, including Vanilla AE, Contractive AE, and Variational AE. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and the other statistics are used to evaluate the performance of these models.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Among the four tested AE models, the proposed multi-task AE model achieves the highest values in AUC (0.964), accuracy (0.821), precision (0.471), and <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>1 score (0.632), and the lowest value in FPR (0.206).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The proposed multi-task AE model using two-dimensional (2D) feature maps can effectively detect anomalies in radiotherapy plans for lung cancer patients. Compared to the other existing AE models, the multi-task AE is more accurate and efficient. 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